A sensitive and intense eye: Amendola has crossed the history of art with his camera, turning light into narrative. From the immortal sculpture of Michelangelo and Bernini to the contemporary force of Emilio Vedova and Alberto Burri, his pictures reveal the secret life of the works and the faces of the artists.

Through his frames he has brought out the most living and secret matter of marble, its tangible substance: the skin of Michelangelo's David, the absolute energy of Bernini's Rape of Proserpina, the overbearing sensuality of Canova's Cupid and Psyche. Unique too is his ability to tell the most private history of the making of art — from Burri to Roy Lichtenstein to Andy Warhol, portraits that marked the history of contemporary art and fixed the powerful act of creation. Published for the exhibition at Palazzo Reale.